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JDK installed to ram drive causing build errors [message #1768127]

Thu, 13 July 2017 15:18

Eclipse User

Eclipse and Ant run 20-30% faster when running the JDK from a ram drive. Ubuntu 16.0.4 now provides a ram drive in /dev/shm.

Noticing that Ant builds now intermittently fail. This looks like a race condition between Ant and Eclipse's auto-build feature. Ant builds perform a clean operation at start, which is concurrently invoking the Eclipse auto-build.

- If auto-build is off during Ant build, all is well.
- If not running JDK from the ram drive, all is well, even with auto-build turned on.

Is running the JDK from a ram drive recommended? The faster processing seems to be causing the race condition. I understand this in an edge-case, and assume there are currently no unit tests for running Eclipse's JDK from a ram drive.

[Updated on: Thu, 13 July 2017 15:59] by Moderator

Re: JDK installed to ram drive causing build errors [message #1768253 is a reply to message #1768127]

Sat, 15 July 2017 22:04

Eclipse User

You haven't said what "intermittently fail" means. Are you running Ant in-place -- in the same source tree as what you're developing in? Are your Ant builds putting the .class files into the same location as Eclipse?

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